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Friday, April 10, 2009

Friday, April 10, 2009

Easter sure has an interesting assortment of holiday icons, doesn't it? I mean, have you ever stopped to wonder why it's perfectly normal at this time of year to have a big cross combined with a rabbit holding an egg?

And finally, this Easter Egg is brought to you by the letters W, T, and F:

Yes, I'm told that's an egg, although it looks more like a yellow volcano covered with green curly shoe laces. It also appears that a small tree fell on it. Uh, guys? Can we get some of those plastic bunny picks over here? We need to "Easter" this sucker up.

Psst, hey. You. Yeah, you. Seen a GOOD Easter cake? Then send it to me at Sunday Sweets [at] Cake Wrecks [dot] com. And do it fast, or else I might get, shall we say, disappointed. You wouldn't want that, now would you?

Yikes! The color scheme on the first offends all of the sensibilities my artistic genes can muster (and I actually have some).

The punk-ty Humpty Dumpty is hilarious.

And please tell me I'm not the only one who initially read the decorated-by-an-opera-singer cookie cake as "Merry Easter."

P.S. I'd send you some good Easter cakes, but my local grocery store's bakery is serving up domes slathered in pastel frosting with bunny ears stuck in them. They're almost bad enough to be Wrecks but certainly not good enough to be Sunday Sweets.

I think the last one is supposed to be a house. See the icing for the edges of the roof and a door? Maybe the Easter bunny is supposed to live there. I can't explain the spring of evergreen/holly leaves though. Maybe they thought, "WTF, it's a religious holiday too," and used up some old supplies.

Holy Sugar Rush Batman! Are cake decorators really so swamped at Easter (or any time, really) that they can't even take the time to put on their glasses before glopping all that icing on to their "creations?"

This just reminds me of the I Love Lucy episode where she and Ethel were working in the candy factory and the conveyor belt kept wizzing by. It looks like Lucy and Ethel made these cakes.

Well since these cakes are all truly horrible, I just HAVE to pick a favorite. I have 2 of them, actually.

First is the big yellow volcano/"egg." What's with all the big nasty vegetation strewn all around it? Makes me think of the jungle.

And my second favorite is the tough chick/dead bunnies cake. I mean, the bunny bums is hilarious in its own right, but that's not even the worst part of that cake. What the AYCH did the whole mess take place on? It's so...busy. So much going on on that cake it literally hurts my eyeballs.

I always wondered why Easter went from Christ’s resurrection to bunnies and eggs. I have thoughts on this but I won’t clutter your comment page with them. I wonder what the egg volcano will erupt with? And also: My eyes! Too much garish color! It burns!

The top one reminds me of Eddie Izzard's take on Easter and the convenient placement of holidays. "Yes the brown of the chocolate bunny, the brown of the cross...which was made of wood. No! It's a fertility celebration and everybody knows bunnies are for shagging."

Number 5 reminds me vaguely of the evil rabbit from Donnie Darko. And the last one...well I'm not sure what type of egg that is but I bet Hagrid would like it. :-P

I'd lost my confidence and wasn't going to bake cakes this Easter till I saw today's blog. On my way to get supplies - if they can sell this crap then the cheery little cakes my friends get are just magnificent! That green thing is actually rather disgusting or maybe just the thought of little kids with dark green................oh never mind. More black coffee please?

Just wanted to comment on the whole "why are bunnies and eggs for Easter?" thing. Easter was originally the spring equinox (Pagan holiday of Ostara) that the Christians took over (kind of like Christmas) in order to convert people easier. Ostara is all about re-birth and renewal of the earth, thus, eggs, and bunnies :P

Ha ha! All the questionable symbols and such reminds me of the Jim Gaffigan bit.

"What are we going to do for Easter?""How about eggs?""But what does that have to do with Easter?""All right, we'll hide 'em.""But I still don't get what that has to do with Jesus!""Don't worry, there's a bunny."

Okay, as a cake decorator that actually sings opera (at least that's what my degree says) I have to say that I would NEVER do that to a cake! My DH can do better than these and has no training at all! Most of us singers have more sense, and artistic talent, than to put something like that out on display.

Umm, read a lot of the comments about that lamb smoking cakes... May I remind people that Easter and Passover are from two separate religions and so a cake with a "Happy Easter" sign is not likely to be in celebration of Passover? Unless that was part of the Wreckiness...

Well, what do you EXPECT those rabbits to do BUT dive headlong down into their rabbit holes? Good grief--they obviously spotted a potential customer approaching (GASP!) and--well, would YOU wanna be seen posing on that heap of...of...???...what looks like an explosion at a confetti factory? Or a parade float sponsored by the Green Dye Union?As for that *decorator* who may or may not sing opera; he'd best be trotting out his hidden talents pretty soon or he'll be singing for his supper. Maybe they'll make him eat what he ruins? (He'd get aawwful sick of cake...)>^~~^<

Yesterday my status on facebook said I was baking bread and my Jewish friends pointed out that that was torture as Passover had begun. So like any good Catholic I spent today in Penance making chocolate covered macaroons, but it got me thinking -- are there any confused bakers out there that made Happy Passover cakes ?

Upon enlarging the photo of the killer chick/bunny massacre cake, I noticed they used alot of the sugary shaped sprinkles. I personally LOVE those! (I call them crunchies!! Ya know...'cause they are kinda hard and crunchy?!) I would totally eat a slab of that sucker soley for the crunchies. I could even manage a piece of the dead bunny fannies with the tails that come to a point! That one is the only edible one of the bunch, though.

Ok so I thought the bunnies on the Chicky cake were bunny paw prints not actually bunnies because a couple of them would have three ears if they are bunnies :P BTW Love this it's my laugh everyday Thankyou

in defense of a really-cute-but-poorly-executed idea, the burrowing bunnies are from a cupcake decorating cookbook. the picture here looks NOTHING like the picture in the book. this one looks like they frosted the cupcakes with moss.

Cake Wreck 3 (the one with the bunny bums/pandas/holes) is from a book called "Hello, Cupcake!: Irresistebly Playful Creations Anyone Can Make" Howewver, in the naming of the book, they made one mistake: not everyone apparently can make them. I think plastic eggs and chicks are part of the problem.

Sheesh...I'm sorry but cookie "cakes" are just wrong. They might (might!) even be worse than cupcake cakes. At least with CCC's you actually get CAKE underneath it all!! Not only are they ugly but for all those calories you don't get any cake! Ugly, identity challenged, non-cake cookies... so VERY wrong...

"Julianne said... does anyone else think the first one looks like the cross is farting?"* * * * * * *Heh heh...yeah, it does sort of! But in cartoons they usually show "stinky" as ~~~wavy~~~ vertical lines hovering over.I was thinking that maybe a couple of chickens had tried to dive into a (oh-so-popular) rabbit hole, but didn't quite make it.=^??^=

Word of the minute: "tarcali.""I wouldn't dare walk through a tarcali alone these days."

You, my friend, take humor to a new level. No matter what kind of day I'm having, I can stop in and laugh so hard I hurt. In a world where there is so much sorrow, we need more people like you. The cakes are awful, but you rock!!!

I read this blog about a few months ago and I'm listening to NPR and they're interviewing the blogger of "Cake Wrecks"! Needless to say I was very excited and logged on and viewed almost all of the wrecked cake pictures. These pictures are just a huge mass of disaster! Couldn't stop laughing.

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